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Minutes(75)9th Meeting
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MINUTES OF THE 9th MEETING OF THE
EXECUTIVE COUNCIL OF HONG KONG
Held in the Council Chamber
ON TUESDAY, 18th MARCH 1975
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DISCUSSION OF DEATH BUITENCES
(COU 5/2647/74 (TS 6/75))
RECEIVED REGISTRY No 52! 17 APR 1975
C.S. 156
The Council considered mentor multum XCS(75)3.
Unofficial Members suggested: Unof
(a) thot
Unofficials might abstain from
Lendering any odejen iu enses in which
they considered. Th Law Should take its
Come*
(b) that if the Secretary of State felt obliged
in all vases to adkine the queen that the
death sentence should be commnted, an Order
in Council suspending the death sentence
in Hong Kong should be made.
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